Topic: Tabby BUR

Posted under Tag Alias and Implication Suggestions

Nimphia

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The bulk update request #8390 is pending approval.

create implication classic_tabby (118) -> tabby_cat (4088)
create implication mackerel_tabby (637) -> tabby_cat (4088)
create implication rosetted_tabby (9) -> tabby_cat (4088)
create implication rosetted_tabby (9) -> leopard_spots (4295)
create implication spotted_tabby (82) -> tabby_cat (4088)
create implication spotted_tabby (82) -> spots (86469)
create implication ticked_tabby (33) -> tabby_cat (4088)
create implication lynx_point (4) -> tabby_cat (4088)
create implication lynx_point (4) -> colorpoint (119)

Reason: These are the different forms of tabby cats, and should all imply the main tabby cat tag.

In order to be a rosetted tabby, you need to have rosettes (leopard spots), and to be a spotted tabby, you need spots. Lynx point is a tabby colorpoint, so it should also imply colorpoint.

(I have been trying to clean up these tags and also work on how massively undertagged cats are compared to dogs when it comes to things like these. Adding wikis and such, and populating them, cleaning mistags up, etc.)

Some more general thoughts

I know some people are meh on the color/pattern tags in species but I think for stuff like this, it's fine, since they're restricted to cats - you wouldn't call other animals tabby, just striped. Other animals can have point coloration, but it's not related to colorpoint, a form of heat-deactivated partial albinism. (Rats have a similar form of albinism but it actually just dilutes the production of specific pigments. point_coloration could be used in general?) Tortoiseshell/calico are directly linked to the orange color being sex-linked in cats.

They feel more fitting to be in the same category as things like breeds than in general, IMO.

Something like dilution on the other hand makes perfect sense to be in general, since it's not cat-specific. (On that note, before I add a wiki to that, is dilution too ambiguous? Should it instead be something like color_dilution or genetic_dilution?)

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